Car flips into path of police officer seconds after he walks away

A Washington police officer has been filmed walking down a street seconds before a car flipped and crashed in the same spot.

Officer Raul Cavazos’s near-miss experience happened on Pasco’s Road 68 on Thursday and was shared to the Pasco Police Department’s Facebook page yesterday, where it has since been viewed tens of thousands of times.

“Eleven seconds from death?” the caption reads.

The caption explains how Mr Cavazos had gotten out of his car to speak to a driver at an intersection after she became confused by broken traffic lights.

He had just walked back to his patrol car when a PT Cruiser passed through the intersection without stopping and collided with another car.

The impact caused the Cruiser to flip and skate across the road, colliding with the door of the car Mr Cavazos had been standing at moments earlier.

In an update to the original post in the comment’s section, Pasco Police advised that the Cruiser driver was treated for minor injuries.